Science. Best served funny.
On today’s show, Jonathan will be speaking with the distinctly talented Robin Ince about his new show Happiness Through Science,...
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From Here to Eternity – the science of cryonics
Is death really inevitable? That’s the question we’ll be asking on this week’s Futureproof as we speak to Max More...
That’s Disgusting
Why are some things almost universally disgusting? Why is the face we make when we’re disgusted the same as the...
May the fourth be with you…
Not people to miss a good pun, Star Wars fans will assemble en masse today to celebrate the iconic science...
Futureproof at the Movies: The Science of Gattaca
6pm, Wednesday May 9th, 2012 Futureproof at the Movies – The Science of Gattaca Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Trinity College,...
The Milgram obedience experiment, updated
In the early 1960s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that measured obedience in semi-unwitting participants. Milgram...
Counting penguins from space
We caught a brilliant report in PLoS ONE this week of a new study that used satellite mapping technology to...
The true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea
On this week’s show, we speak to Donovan Hohn, author of the epically entertaining Moby Duck. Moby Duck tells the...
Frog-licking for science
On this weeks show, we speak to biochemist Valerie Clark who goes to admirable lengths to understand amphibians. Valerie studies...
The scientist who flies into hurricanes
If you caught the recent BBC Horizon, ‘Global Weirding’, you might remember the scientist who studies hurricanes… by flying into...
Regeneration: The future of medicine
Tomorrow on Futureproof, we’ll be speaking with Fergal O’Brien from RCSI about what’s happening in the world of regenerative medicine....
We need to talk about evolution…
Teaching evolution in the US has always been a challenge. The religious beliefs of parents, policy makers and even educators...
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